[R] where are these NAs coming from?

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 19:54:56 CEST 2012


Well, you have no reproducible example, but I suspect either of these
will fix it:

locals <- z[z$country == mycountry & !is.na(z$country),]

locals <- subset(z, country == mycountry)

Sarah

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
> I see this:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> length(which(is.na(z$language)))
> [1] 0
>> locals <- z[z$country == mycountry,]
>> length(which(is.na(locals$language)))
> [1] 229
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> where are those locals without the language coming from?!
>
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